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Definition: Delaware River |
Delaware RiverNoun1. A river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Delaware RiverSynonym: Delaware (n). (additional references) |
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The Delaware River at New Hope, Pennsylvania.
1911 encyclopedia text:
It meets tide-water at Trenton, New Jersey. Its total length, from the head of the longest branch to the capes, is 410 miles, and above the head of the bay its length is 360 miles.
It constitutes in part the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, the boundary between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and, for a few miles, the boundary between Delaware and New Jersey.
The main, west or Mohawk branch rises in Schoharie county, N.Y, about 1886 feet above the sea, and flows tortuously through the plateau in a deep trough until it emerges from the Catskills. Other branches rise in Greene and Delaware counties.
In the upper portion of its course the varied scenery of its hilly and wooded banks is exquisitely beautiful. After leaving the mountains and plateau, the river flows down broad Appalachian valleys, skirts the Kittatinny range, which it crosses at Delaware Water-Gap, between nearly vertical walls of sandstone, and passes through a quiet and charming country of farm and forest, diversified with plateaus and escarpments, until it crosses the Appalachian plain and enters the hills again at Easton, Pa From this point it is flanked at intervals by fine hills, and in places by cliffs, of which the finest are the Hockamixon Rocks, 3 miles long and above 200 feet high.
At Trenton there is a fall of 8 feet. Below Trenton the river becomes a broad, sluggish inlet of the sea, with many marshes along its side, widening steadily into its great estuary, Delaware Bay.
Its main tributaries in New York are Mongaup and Neversink rivers and Callicoon Creek; from Pennsylvania, Lackawaxen, Lehigh, and Schuylkill rivers; and from New Jersey, Rancocas Creek and Musconetcong and Maurice rivers.
Commerce was once important on the upper river, but only before the beginning of railway competition (1857). The Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, running parallel with the river from Easton to Bristol, was opened in 1830. A canal from Trenton to New Brunswick, called the Delaware & Raritan Canal, unites the waters of the Delaware and Raritan rivers; the Morris and the Delaware and Hudson canals connect the Delaware and Hudson rivers; and the Delaware and Chesapeake canal joins the waters of the Delaware with those of the Chesapeake Bay.
The mean tides below Philadelphia are about 6 feet. The magnitude of the commerce of Philadelphia has made the improvements of the river below that port of great importance. Small improvements were attempted by Pennsylvania as early as 1771.
In the “project of 1885“ the United States government undertook systematically the formation of a 26-ft. channel 600 ft. wide from Philadelphia to deep water in Delaware Bay. The River and Harbor Act of 1899 provided for a 30-foot channel 600 feet wide from Philadelphia to the deep water of the bay.
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Crosswords: Delaware River |
| English words defined with "Delaware River": Benjamin Franklin Bridge ♦ Camden, capital of New Jersey, Chester, City of Brotherly Love ♦ Delaware, Delaware Bay, Delaware Memorial Bridge, Delawares ♦ Philadelphia ♦ Trenton ♦ Walt Whitman Bridge. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Scene on the Delaware River (1897) Philadelphia Delaware River (1897) | |
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 | Tidal indicator erected at Reedy Island on the Delaware River, Delaware Figure No. 5, Appendix No. 9 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 483 This and two other indicators at New York and San Francisco built by C&GS Face is thirty feet in diameter.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Army Creek proper is a sixty-acre site, the creek is approximately 3.9 miles long and is a tributary of the Delaware River, there are 225 acres of emergent wetlands adjacent to the creek.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close-up view of the tide gate from the Delaware River side shows the flat valves near low tide. The water is flowing out of Army Creek, the tide gates are open and debris that plugs the openings can be clearly seen. The restoration work will target modification of the flood gates to allow better passage for anadromous species.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Officers and crew posed on her forecastle and upper deck, circa July-August 1898. During the Spanish-American War, this Philadelphia city iceboat served briefly in the Delaware River area as a U.S. Navy refrigerator ship. Note her 60-pounder breech-loading rifle, converted from a Civil War vintage Parrott gun.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Photographed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, probably in the Delaware River or Delaware Bay on 12 December 1942. Note the seaplane floats on her catapults.Credit: NAVY. |  | Fitch's steamboat On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia / / designed by Reigart ; L.N. Rosenthal's lith., Phila.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coal barges in tow on the Delaware River / Louis Husson.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Delaware River above gap.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Chester, Pennsylvania. Men repairing their boats by the shore of the Delaware River.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Delhi, New York. "Horses for sale" sign in the Delaware River Valley.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | andouille, Anguilla anguilla, Anguilla vulgaris, anguille commune, anguille de rivière, anguille d'Europe, Anguillidae, VE Anguilla anguilla, VE anguille. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-i-l-r-r-r-v-w" | |
-4 letters: deliverer, reavailed, redeliver, riverward. | |
-5 letters: derriere, drawlier, drearier, driveler, laveered, rearward, redrawer, relieved, reliever, rereview, rereward, revealed, revealer, reviewal, reviewed, reviewer, rewarder, reweaved, verderer, weeviled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 61 77 61 72 65 52 69 76 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110111 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01010010 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l a w a r e   R i v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0061 0077 0061 0072 0065 0052 0069 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387178678967847125275887184 |
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